No sir. Lets do this better next time. , if we need a next time. Go for Touusannt Louveture next time. that would be a good movie. I admire Nate Parkers effort to bring forth a piece from history that would show that black culture didn't just sit back and accept their circumstance but fought for freedom, but he chose the wrong direction. The movie was supposed to be about the actual rebellion, and it should have gone straight to the battle. It took tooo long to get there and when you get there , the battle lasted all of 5 minutes in a defeat that ended with a black man hanging from a tree and whites clapping in the background. ummmm no. people pleasing ending, psychological warfare and the emasculating of black men in film and theatre is getting really tired.

Nat Turner (Nate Parker) is a literate slave and preacher and his owner Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer) decides to use Nat's skills to try to calm down other unruly slaves. However, when Nat continually witnesses the atrocious way that the slaves are treated he decides that he can stand by no more and with the help of a small group of fellow slaves he decides to overthrow their owners' violent regime...The Birth Of A Nation is a well-intentioned, but frequently dull film. Whilst there clearly is a story here, Parker doesn't seem in much of a hurry to tell his story - the film flits between atrocities and preaching, but without any glue to hold the two things together. There's no real character development on offer here and Parker doesn't really teach us much about the era either; I have learned to take biopics with a pinch of salt as we all know that they can often be 'historically inaccurate', but I still think it would have been nice if there were more in the way of content.Parker presents the whole thing in such a dull and one-dimensional manner that it's almost impossible to care about anyone or anything (and believe me it is hard for me to write these things knowing how badly slaves were treated in the 19th century), but those are my honest feelings on this film.There were a couple of things that I liked about the film; the score is good and the era has been captured very well. Parker does give an impassioned performance and although his film is problematic, his performance is nothing short of superb - although I found it distracting because of how much he reminded me of Jamie Foxx. He's well supported by the likes of Armie Hammer and it's always nice to see Jack Haley in any picture and he's great in the limited scenes that he appears in.All in all, The Birth Of A Nation is a pretty poor film that sadly doesn't have a particularly engaging narrative and is filled with poorly developed one-dimensional characters whom it is hard to really care about (as I said before it pains me to say this, but sadly it's true). This is Nate Parker's directorial debut and in fairness I can see potential here, but let's hope that he improves his craft on his next attempt.

Now that the controversy has died down and Nate Parker the film maker has been denounced and banished by the political elite, it's time to take a closer look at THE BIRTH OF A NATION as film entertainment.The story of slave hero Nat Turner should be feverish, explosive, and suspenseful. Instead it's dull, slow, and predictable. White people make promises, and don't keep them. Young Nat Turner learns to read, and soon discovers he is different from other slaves. The Bible seems to comfort him at first, but then it makes him mad. The slaves join him and fight bravely, but everyone dies at the end. Nothing is a surprise from start to finish, except how much screen time is taken up by panoramic picture postcard views of cotton fields and trees festooned with Spanish Moss.Nate Parker has made a very boring movie about a very complicated and charismatic man. It's sad that the only powerful action sequence in the entire film comes when Nat Turner's father beats down a slave patrol and escapes into the night, never to be seen again. That scene takes about two minutes of screen time, and then it's gone. Nothing Nat Turner himself ever does is half as compelling or convincing.Four stars for the film maker's courage in attempting to tell the story. It was a risky move -- and he sure paid the price.

. . . BIRTH OF A NATION (aka, WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE GRAPES OF WRATH) that the ONLY way to deal with Urban Unrest back in the 1800s was a thorough axle greasing (which gave rise to the expression, "The squeaky wheel gets greased"). Now Director Benny Boom carries this theme forward with another True American Story, ALL EYEZ ON ME. Mr. Boom makes it clear that the protagonist of this Tragic Tale emerged from a deep gene pool of UltraViolent Urban Guerillas, not unlike Parker's earlier Nat Turner Doomed Hero. Abraham Lincoln was 22 years old when Nat got greased, causing this Great Emancipator to found the G.O.P. on a Repatriation Platform. Though as President, Abe was gunned down like NAACP Leader Tupac Shakur, Grateful Americans carved a giant replica of him on Mount Rushmore for his Great Idea. ALL EYEZ ON ME carries Parker's saga of Nat forward nearly 200 years to prove that America is NOT a safe or suitable environment for transplants with the characteristics of Nat and Tupac. It shows Tupac causing the death of an six-year-old from his own clan in a public park, while committing numerous other felonies against his misplaced cohorts. It shows some guy named "Shug" also engaging in countless violent felonies, as well as a stray prison-yard murder as another example of fraternal warfare. The U.S. Government is justly criticized for wasting nearly half its budget to lock up nearly all the Urban Males, and many of their Moms, such as Tupac's. Leader Trump MUST redirect a small fraction of this "corrections" budget to implement Abe Lincoln's own Grand Correction plan of repatriating a kidnapped, hostage population to the more suitable environment from which it sprang. Leader Trump should start with the Will and Jada Smith Crime Syndicate, which the ALL EYEZ ON ME whistle-blowers finger for Tupac's slaying, if not Shug's. The Streets of Chicago have been stained with ENOUGH blood, let alone L.A., Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit, Houston, New York, Philadelphia, etc. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 in favor of Leader Trump's Muslim Deportation Proposal Today, so it seems unlikely to scotch an idea adopted from the also revered Abe Lincoln which will curtail any more of this ALL EYEZ ON ME-style UltraViolence.